Lesson plan · North Dakota · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Kinship & family, Identity & belonging, Education & learning, Culture & continuity
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Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
My Family and My Identity
NDNAEU 7 “Native Identity”
Compelling Question
What is your identity?
Standards and Practices
ND.6_12.4.6 Use various primary and secondary
resources to acquire, analyze, and evaluate
information.
SOC.6_12.1-2.D2.2 Explain the relationship between
culture and society
Staging the Question
How does my family shape my identity?
Supporting Question 1
Supporting Question 2
When someone asks you who you are, or what you are; what is your response?
What parts of your identity do you consider most important?
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Bring a picture of my family units. One of me with my
dad’s family, one of me with my mom’s family, and one
of me with my wife’s family.
Students will interview a family member(s) about how
they identify culturally, socially, religiously, etc.
Students will write or draw their answers to this questions
to go along with their interview and summative
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
https://teachingsofourelders.org/essential-understanding-7-dr-wayne-fox/
SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK:
Supported Claim
(written/spoken)
or Demonstration of Process
(project-based)
A drawing or picture of their family with a description of
different facets of their cultural identity. A brief description
of the people in the picture or drawing and their relation to
you.
SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK:
Extension
Create a family tree or constellation.
Taking Informed Action / Real World Application
When the student is asked in the future the questions that are posed in this assignment, they will be able to more easily and readily answer it in an informed and intelligent manner.
Self awareness about self vs society will be identifiable.